here's a little bit of what he said to cbs this morning a couple days ago. listen. >> for enhanced or continued security that we had, that we had known, that we had come to live with and work with no tl for the environment we had, we felt we needed more, not less. there was pressure to reduce the number of security people there. >> pressure from where? >> higher headquarters at state department. >> so to me that is very much a red flag in that. if the issue of course would be if the numbers are being intentionally kept low, who do you blame for that? >> well, we have two people coming from the state department who are going to answer those questions. thus far, they have not owned up to it. literally it's only been in the last 12 to 16 hours that the state department is now even admitting there were no protests, the video was not the genesis of this. so, you know, those facts are slowly coming out. we're going to pry them out of this administration. and that's what the hearing is all about at noon. >> you know, you have said that you believe that there's a co